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Verizon offers to cut exclusive time for phones

(AP) -- Verizon Wireless has offered to shorten the period in which it demands exclusive rights to new cell phones from LG and Samsung in an effort to give small rural carriers a better chance to sell up-to-date phones.

Technology / Telecom

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Columbia grads design solar-pillow lights for global village

(PhysOrg.com) -- World populations who live without electricity including those in disaster-stricken areas in the wake of floods, earthquakes, and other calamities are who two Columbia University graduates ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

FCC unveils rules for rural broadband fund

Federal regulators have unveiled a plan for overhauling the $8 billion fund that subsidizes phone service in rural areas and for the poor. It redirects the money toward broadband expansion.

Technology / Telecom

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FCC set to unveil rules for rural broadband fund

Federal regulators are set to reveal their plan Thursday for an overhaul of the $8 billion fund that subsidizes phone service in rural areas and for the poor, with the goal of redirecting the money toward broadband expansion.

Technology / Telecom

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Chagas disease may be a threat in South Texas, says researcher

Chagas disease, a tropical parasitic disease that can lead to life-threatening heart and digestive disorders, may be more widespread in Texas than previously thought, according to research from The University ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Buildings house secret servers that keep the Internet running

From the outside, the Gothic brick and limestone building a few blocks south of downtown almost looks abandoned.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10

Livestock sellers should provide more information about disease risk, say researchers

University of Warwick Scientists from the UK research councils’ Rural Economy and Land Use program say that better information for buyers could provide the key to controlling many endemic livestock diseases.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Antitrust suit a huge blow for AT&T: analysts

The decision by US authorities to challenge AT&T's $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile is a bitter blow for the US telecoms giant, but it could benefit consumers, analysts said. ...

Technology / Business

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report shows more US farmers relying on Internet

(AP) -- Think of farms and images of tractors and combines come to mind. But what about laptops, smart phones and tablets?

Technology / Internet

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Phone companies present rural broadband plan

(AP) -- AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and four other telecom companies are offering a proposal to overhaul the $8 billion federal phone subsidy program to pay for high-speed Internet connections in rural and other ...

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New Texas native: 96-million-year-old croc

(PhysOrg.com) -- Making its first appearance in Texas, a prehistoric crocodile thought to have originated in Europe now appears to have been a native of the Lone Star State.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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